A paper-based skin patch for the diagnostic screening of cystic fibrosis
Xuan Mu1, Xiaolei Xin, Chengyan Fan
1Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, School of Basic Medicine Peking Union Medical College, 5 Dongdan Santiao, 100005, Beijing, China. mux@ibms.pumc.edu.cn zhizheng10@yahoo.com.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|March 13, 2015
Abstract:
A thin and flexible paper-based skin patch was developed for the diagnostic screening of cystic fibrosis. It utilized a unique combination of both anion exchange and pH test papers to enable the quantitative, colorimetric and on-skin detection of sweat anions.
